Featured Courses:

The Birth Defects Registry course discusses the value of the Birth Defects Registry and teaches individuals
how to correctly complete the Birth Defects reporting forms. The course teaches both the Paper Birth Defect
Reporting Form and the Electronic Birth Certificate method of reporting Birth Defects. Upon completion the
learner will be able to correctly complete the Michigan State Birth Defects form.

Welcome to Michigan's continuing education program for lead poisoning prevention and treatment. This module was created for provider professional development for physicians and other primary care providers. The Federal and State of Michigan's goal is to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010.

This course gives the basics of being a Support Parent. It is for mothers, fathers, grandparents, guardians and those wishing to assist in supporting families with children with special needs. This course covers the Support Parent role and the best ways to communicate with parents you are supporting.

The Medicare Drug Coverage Online Learning course is ready to help you and your colleagues understand how this pharmacy benefit change affects Medicaid and EPIC beneficiaries. Medicare's prescription drug coverage will replace the Medicaid pharmacy benefit for Michigan's low-income elderly and the disabled. Your most vulnerable patients could be without prescription drug coverage unless they take action and enroll in a plan by December 31, 2005.

Do you know how to explain to your patients what they must do to
maintain their prescription drug coverage? This online learning program will
provide you with the information you need to help them.

This program was created in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Michigan Department of Human Services, the Michigan State Police, Michigan Department of Corrections, Department of Information Technology, Michigan State University, and the long-term care provider community as a piloted project to expand the background checks process to include more long-term care facilities and agencies, and enhance the background check process in order to protect the safety of Michigan's elders and persons with disabilities.

This course teaches all MCIR users the power of the registry and how to ensure all immunizations are recorded correctly on the new thin client format that the State of Michigan released in the fall of 2002. This course is free!

This
course gives Michigan providers a high level overview of HIPAA
standardized electronic transactions, who is affected and how
the Michigan Department of Community Health is prepared to implement
HIPAA. The HIPAA course now includes MDCHs Implementation
Schedule for the HIPAA Transaction and Code Sets. Also a new
chapter on the Testing and Certification Process has been added.
The information in the course is updated monthly. This course
is free!

This
course covers the basics of Michigan's Children's Special Health
Care Services (CSHCS) program. The course is designed to assure
that all "relevant" professionals have sufficient knowledge
to respond appropriately to potentially eligible families. It also
may help families understand who may be eligible for the CSHCS program
and get other information. The Family Phone Line (1-800-359-3722)
is available from 8am to 5pm.

This information is for anyone interested the Medicaid program. You
will learn about Medicaid eligibility, benefits, history, and
about additional resources and contact information. This course
is free!

The objective of this course is to help you better understand and
carry out your role with the newborn screening program in your
hospital. It has valuable information for everyone who is involved
in the newborn screening process including clerical staff, phlebotomy/laboratory staff, nurses, physicians, midwives, and mailroom staff.

This course is designed for prenatal care providers, child birth educators, and other health care professionals who work with expectant parents. The purpose of this course is to enable you to heighten expectant parents’ awareness of newborn screening. Although state-mandated newborn screening programs have existed for over four decades, many parents still are unaware of newborn screening. You have an essential role in helping parents become informed and prepared for their baby’s newborn screening.

Continuing Education for Nurses - Participants who pass this course and complete the
demographic information in the survey will receive 1.2 contact hours of Continuing Education.

The goals of this course are to provide information on universal newborn hearing screening and to increase screener proficiency in all Michigan hospitals. This course is especially important for hearing screeners and managers of universal newborn hearing screening programs.

This course was developed for the Maternal Infant Health Program (MIHP) for care coordination staff who are providing services to Michigan Medicaid mothers and infants. The purpose of this course is to increase the Maternal Infant Health Program (MIHP) providers’ knowledge of potential risks to the mother and infant of Early Elective Delivery before 39 weeks by providing evidence-based information and program expectations for educating mothers and their families. Michigan Public Health Institute and Michigan State University, Institute for Health Policy state they are the owners of the material and no copyright has been breached for this material.

Continuing Education for Nurses - Participants who pass this course and complete the demographic information in the survey will receive 1.00 nursing contact hours of Continuing Education.